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Following the end of the 9-year terms of 127 "series C" senators, indirect senatorial elections were held in France on September 26, 2004.
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This was the last renewal of serie C senators- following the electoral reform, senators are not elected by thirds to nine-year terms but by halves to six-year terms.
Since 2001, 10 seats had been added to Senate. This election elected Senators from 28 departments on the mainland (115 seats including 107 incumbents and 8 new seats), 2 from Guadeloupe and Martinique (5 seats including 4 incumbents and one new seat), 2 from overseas territories, Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (3 seats including 2 incumbents and one new seat), and 4 senators representing French citizens abroad.
The 117 incumbents were divided in the following way:
Group | Seats (2001) | Seats (2004) | Change | |
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UMP Group | 162 | 155 | –7 | |
Socialist Group | 83 | 97 | +14 | |
Centrist Union - UDF Group | 31 | 33 | +2 | |
Communist, Republican and Citizen Group | 23 | 23 | ±0 | |
Democratic, Social, and European Rally | 17 | 16 | –1 | |
Non-Inscrits | 5 | 7 | +2 | |
Total: | 321 | 326 | +5 |
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